Vanity-box.



P. NOCARD.

VANITY BOX. APPLIUATION FILED JAN.19.1911.

1,022,254. Patented Apr. 2. 1912.

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PAUL NOCRD, 0F PARIS, FRANCE, ASSIGNR TO L. T. PIVER de CIE., A FIRM.

VANITY-BOX.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 2, 1912.

Application filed January 19, 1911. Serial No. 603,521.

To all 'whom "it may concern:

Be it known that I, PAUL Nocxnn, a citi- `zen of the Republic of France,residing in Paris, in said Republic of France, have -invented certainnew and useful Improve'- ments in Vanity-Boxes, whereof the following isa specification.

This invention relates to a vanity box to be carried in a ladyspocketbook for containingI face powder and means for applying it.

The object of the invention is to provide a device of this characterwhich can be produced so cheaply as to be freely given away with samplesof 'face powder for advertising the latter.

To this end the invention consists in a vanity box constructed ofpasteboard as hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a top planview of thisimproved vanity box. Fig. 2 represents a vertical diametrical section online 2-2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 represents a vertical diametrical section ofthe cover-puff therefor removed from the box. Fig. 4 represents adiametrical vert-ical section of the body of the'box.

lSimilar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in thedifferent figures.

This vanity box comprises a flat box and a slidingcov r-pufl'. The flatbox is constructed of a disk c constituting its bottom and an upwardlyprojecting annular flange a. also composed of paste/board and disposedat the periphery of said' disk. The box is provided with an inner fiangea2 also com-,

posed of pasteboard cemented to the outer flange a and about half theheight thereof. This inner flange serves to reinforce the outer flangeconstituting the body of the box and the top 'thereof acts as a rest orstop a3 for the cover-puff.

The sliding cover-puff consists of a pasteboard disk Zi provid-ed on itsupper side with a central pull knob or handle d, at its periphery withan upward flange b2 and on its' under side with 'a powder pad f). The

flange b2 is of a height corresponding with the distance from the top ofthe interior body flange a2 to the top of the exterior body flange a',the upper edges of said flanges being flush. The flange of the cover--puff reinforces the body flange and incloses the knob or handle. Theflange b2 of the cover-puff forms a large contact surface between itsouter periphery and the inner periphery of the flange a. of the box bodyand operates to hold by a piston-like action the cover-puff within thebox when said coverpuff is used as a cover and permits it to slide outwith some resistance when it is to be used as a puff. The flat powderpuff' l) secured to the under side of the disk b is adapted to engagethe powder fp in the bottom of the box.

I claim as my invention :H

1. A pocket. I'iastcboard vanity box consisting of a flat boxconstructed of a pasteboard disk provided with an upward circumferentialflange constituting the body of the box and with an internal reinforcingflange cemented thereto and serving as a cover stop, and a sliding7cover-puff' constructed of a flat pasteboard disk provided on its underside with a flat powder pad cemented thereto and on its -upper side witha central knob and at its periphery with an upward flange surrounilingsaid knob and operative piston-like within said box to hold the co'vcrclosed and serving to reinforce the upper half of the body ofthe box.

2. A cover-puff for a vanity box consisting of a pasteboard disk, apowder pad cemented to the under side thereof, a knob secured to theupper side of said disk and an upward flange at the periphery of saiddisk inclosing said knob.

In testimony, that I claim the foregoing as my invention, I have signedmy name in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

'PAUL NOCARD.

Witnesses:

JOI-1N' Banen, H. C. Corrie.

